Interactive technology once promised to bring Jennifer Aniston’s sweater to the masses. Now furniture purveyor IKEA is going one step further, bringing her apartment furniture and layout to its offerings. The Swedish furniture chain’s latest ad campaign promotes its “Real life series,” a plan where some of TV’s most…

Disney last week finally unveiled its plans for its upcoming direct-to-consumer platform. It was packed with popular Marvel superheroes, Star Wars warriors and beloved Pixar characters. But none of them got the plum slot at its culmination, just before Direct-to-Consumer and International chairman Kevin Mayer unveiled…

TBS and TNT president Kevin Reilly, who is involved in the oversee of the new WarnerMedia streaming service, said Monday that in regards to Friends down the road, the series is bound to play exclusively on the new platform. “I think you can expect the crown jewels of Warner will ultimately end up on our new service…

What television shows did viewers consume like potato chips this year? TV Time used data from the million or so people who use its app daily to track the shows they’re watching to rank the year’s most binge-watched shows (defined as four or more episodes viewed in a single sitting). The most binge-worthy show of the…

Demand for Netflix originals will outpace demand for licensed titles by October 2019, according to new research jointly undertaken by Parrot Analytics and Kagan, the media research unit of S&P Global Market Intelligence. Parrot, a TV analytics firm, and Kagan surveyed overall consumer demand for television content on…

The television tracking app TV Time offers yet another data point validating Netflix’s decision to keep Ross, Rachel, Joey and Chandler hanging around the streaming service for another year. The Emmy Award-winning comedy landed at the top of TV Time’s weekly rankings of the most binged-watched television show for the…

Many on Wall Street and in Hollywood wonder about Netflix’s plan to keep boosting original-content spending as major suppliers like Disney and WarnerMedia aim to pull their content from the streaming service. But new research shows the strategy appears to be working. Netflix original content accounted for 37% of all…

UPDATED with more Friends deal details. After the recent fuss over the Netflix fate of evergreen sitcom Friends, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson let attendees at the UBS media conference know that the newly extended license to the Warner Bros show is not exclusive. “That means Friends can go onto our platform as well,” he…

Netflix is putting to rest fears that Friends would leave the streaming service on Jan. 1. Netflix just confirmed via tweet that the hit Warner Bros. TV-produced comedy series will remain through 2019. There have been questions about Friends’ future on the streaming service since WarnerMedia announced plans to launch…

UK police have made an arrest in an alleged beer theft that made international headlines last month because the suspect looked so much like Ross from Friends. Lancashire Police posted a tweet today saying that they’d arrested a 36-year-old man in London yesterday on suspicion of theft. The Lancashire department made a…

Netflix faced questions about the shifting media landscape during its earnings release, held a week after WarnerMedia announced plans to launch a competing service in a move that follows in the digital footsteps of The Walt Disney Co. One issue, in particular, loomed large for Wall Street: What will Netflix do to fill…

Could there be anymore reboots? As revivals and reimaginations of classic TV shows become more and more of a hot commodity in Hollywood, fans often fantasize of having their favorite series return. Jennifer Aniston isn’t any different. In a recent interview in InStyle magazine’s September issue, the actress who many…